The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima or Itskushima (“Island of Light”)
The “floating” Torii gate at Miyajima, Japan
Category: Asia
Costume and fashion history of Asia. Manners and Customs. Collected from rare sources.
The Ike-no-Niwa of the Imperial Palace at Kioto.
The Ike-no-Niwa, or “Garden of the Lake,” in the grounds of the Imperial Palace at Kioto
Dishes of late period Arita porcelain. Hizen. Japan.
Square-shaped Dish of late period Arita porcelain, boldly painted with the Japanese lion and foliage in rich blue.
Tatsu. The Dragon. Mythological Japan.
A fitting representation of power, symbolical of sovereignty, mysterious and omnipotent in its influence, is Tatsu
The Great Bell at Chio-In temple, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.
Chion-in (monastery of Gratitude), in Higashiyama-ku, is the principal Buddhist monastery of the Jōdo sect.
Benten, Goddess of Matrimony, of Music, of the Sea.
Benten, or Benzaiten, is one of the Seven Divinities of Good Fortune. Patron of the family and of the sea.
Stone lanterns and their use in Japanese gardens.
Garden Lanterns may be broadly divided into two classes, namely,—the Standard class, and the Legged class
India. The morning breakfast in an English household.
India. The morning breakfast in the household of English colonial rulers.
Japanese dancers in posture and gestures.
The training of the dancing girl usually begins when she is about seven years of age.
Viewing the Irises at Horikiri, Japan.
The Acorus calamus, or Sweet Flag, which the Japanese call Hana-Shobu.